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Originally Posted by HLin NC
I agree with the fact that it's a crew mistake and thus they all take the blame. However, there are white hats who will eventually say that "we've got to make a decision and I'm going with this" or some variant of that. Short of a crew member(s) staging some sort of on field coup or walking off the field in disgust, which isn't going to happen, what do you do once its been talked out and you're "outvoted"? You're going to have to eat the turdburger together.  |
I am a crew chief of a playoff crew. I always empower my crew members to come to me with rules or specifics of why we are going to screw something up. Now you have to come to with an actual rule or why we are not enforcing from the right spot, but not just an opinion. If someone would have told me in this situation that "We cannot extend the game for a loss of down penalty" I know I would have believed them considering I do know that rule. I do not run it like a dictator. I even tell my members, "If you do not know the rule, then you need to rethink if that is something you should call." That just means they have to know all the elements of the call, do not expect me to save them. But there does come a point that you have to make a decision. So we cannot just be debating a rule, but I am not the final arbiter of these things on my crew unless there is a clear disagreement. But then again I have very good rules guys and have good rules discussions during pre-games for that very reason.
Peace